People ex rel. Michigan Public School Employees' Retirement System v. Michigan National Bank

The defendant appeals a. summary judgment for the plaintiff. The facts in this case parallel those in People, for use and benefit of State Employees Retirement System, v. Traverse City State Bank (1968), 9 Mich App 639. There, as here, a retired state employee, who was entitled to receive, and who was monthly paid, a retirement benefit, died. The state, unaware of his death, continued to .send warrants for the monthly benefit. Someone else (in Traverse City a widow, in this' case a daughter) forged the retiree’s name and obtained the proceeds from a local merchant or bank. The warrants were…